What is CSS?
Cascading Style Sheets allows you to create great-looking web pages.
Using CSS you can control exactly how HTML elements look in the browser, presenting your markup using whatever design you like. CSS is a rule-based language. you define rules specifying groups of styles that should be applied to particular elements or groups of elements on your web page.
CSS can be used for very basic document text styling — for example changing the color and size of headings and links.
h1 {
color: red;
font-size: 5em;
}
- Here is the link for more color values: ColorValues
The rule opens with a selector . This selects the HTML element that we are going to style. In this case we are styling level one headings <h1>
How to do the background and borders?
Click on the link here for more codes to use. Background/Boarders
Adding CSS to our document
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The very first thing we need to do is to tell the HTML document that we have some CSS rules we want it to use. There are three different ways to apply CSS to an HTML document, but for now linking CSS from the head of your document.
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Create a file in the same folder as your HTML document and save it as styles.css. The .css extension shows that this is a CSS file.
To link styles.css to index.html add the following line somewhere inside the <head> of the HTML document:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
This <link> element tells the browser that we have a stylesheet, using the rel attribute, and the location of that stylesheet as the value of the href attribute.
You can test that the CSS works by adding a rule to styles.css.
h1 {
color: red;
}
Save your HTML and CSS files and reload the page in a web browser. The level one heading at the top of the document should now be red.
## Three Ways to Insert CSS! Click on this link to see more! How to add CSS?
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